Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-24

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Professor Blume has arranged for two
concerts and balls, to be given at AL
bien's hall in this city during court
week, the dates to be given later on.
Blume's orchestra has a high reputation
in the Hills, and the entertainment con-
templated will doubtless be we'll patron
lied, and heartily enjoyed.
This Office is in receipt of q program
of the first annual session of the Custer
County Normal Institute, to be held in
Hermosa, on Monday, Oct. 3rd, at 10
o'clock a. m, and continuing five days,
which by reason of its late arrival is un-
avoidably crowded out Of the present
issue. 1t will appear next week.
A notice appears in this issue Of the
CHRONICLE, calling for bids for the sink
ing Of a one hundred foot shaft on the
Grand Junction mine, which indicates
the early resumption of operations on
that promising gold property, which
will be very gratifying news to our local
| readers.
The county bastile did not long re-
main vacant. A brace Of the vilest
looking crooks that ever held up a stage,
or cut a throat for a consideration now
occupy its dismal confines, rendering
the removal of Kubler, Shankland and
the CHRONICLE office to that institution,
as playfuily, but pointlessly suggested
by the Pioneer, wholly unnecessary.
The Iron Hill mine is rapidly coming
to the front. The declaring of the late
dividend, followed by the assurance Of
extensive bodies of high grade ore as a
result Of recent development, has had a
tendency to rapidly advance the stock
upon the market. This stock is now
quoted at $3 per share; having advanc
ed one hundred per cent during the past
week.
The election on the proposition to
bond the city of Deadwood, which oc-
Cured on Saturday, the 18th inst, was a
| very tame affair. No excitement: what
ever having been created by the i'm
third Of the voters went to the polls, as
indicated by the following vote: For
bonds, 19I. Against bonds, 40. Total
| vote, 240.
The number Of pupils in attendance
at the public schools in this place is said
to be increasing, and the necessity for
furnishing an additional room on the
second floor of the school building,
| which has been recently completed, is
becoming more apparent. The number
Of pupils now in attendance, about
eighty, will probably exceed u hundred
before the close Of the present term.
Hot Springs is making a vigorous
effort to secure the erection of the
Methodist college at that place. A mass
meeting was held on the night Of the
18th inst, which was addressed by Rev.
j. w. Hancher, of Rapid, q member of
the committee on college location. A
committe offve was appointed to solicit
subscriptions, and much enthusiasm was
manifested.
The Buffalo Gap News makes an earn
est appeal to the alderman of that place,
for the removal Of the tall weeds that
grow so profusely" in the streets of that
foot hill metropolis. Let those tall
weeds stand, Bro. Hair they give the
place an air Of l~uxuriance, besides they
serve to indicate-which way the wind
blows; don't you know?
The Journal states that Custer county
has beer advertised at the Omaha. Lin
coin and Kansas City fairs at Rapid
City's expense but a resident Of this
city who was in attendance at the Lin
coin fair, and who was shown certain
massive tin crystals from the Rapid City
tin mines, and a large sample of ore
labeled Tin Reef, Pennington county, is
rather inclined to discredit the Journals
statement. Funny Amt it?
A camp, believed TO have been occu-
pied by the crooks captured on Friday
night, was found on Saturday, about a
half mile north Of town, in which was
found several articles Of mems wearing
apparel. among which were coats, pants
and BOOTS, which had the appearance Of
having never been worn. 1t is very
likely they may yet be identified as
being a part Of the goods recently stolen
from one of the clothing stores at Rapid.
The News calls the attention of the
| city council of Buffalo Gap to the quest
ion of where are We going to bury our
dead" The question has little sig
nificance in this city, where deaths are
SO rare as to render the preparation of a
place Of burial, as inconsistent, and I'M
called for as would be the improvising
of a suitable place for the proper recep-
ton of some visiting angel which
might suddenly come unannounced into
our midst.
Cy Cole, Of Battle creek, and old
timer Of Custer, is out in the Pilot of the
10th inst. with a sermon on public high
wavS Cy ia a ROAD dec}aimer IF No